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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Heather R BeattyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd Volume: 6 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 2.041kg ISBN: 9781848933088ISBN 10: 1848933088 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 01 November 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Explaining a Fashionable Disorder; Chapter 1 Defining Nervous Disease in Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 2 Quacks, Social Climbers, Social Critics and Gentlemen Physicians: The Nerve Doctors of late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 3 ‘Fester’d with Nonsense’: Nervous Patients in late Eighteenth-Century Britain; Chapter 4 The Pursuit of Health: The Treatment of Nervous Disease; Chapter 5 A Disease of the Body and of the Times; Chapter 6 Epilogue;Reviews'Beatty presents a wealth of new information and perspectives' Journal of British Studies 'this is an admirable piece of work that sets out the debate on nervousness in a helpful and thorough way... Beatty gives us a balanced view of the real medical context of a topic that has often been examined with very different agendas... [This book] is a good place to start research and teaching on the subject.' British Journal for the History of Science 'Beatty presents a wealth of new information and perspectives' Journal of British Studies Author InformationHeather R. Beatty Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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